2020 TOYOTA COROLLA — Complaint #1752463
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT filed June 15, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1752463 (ODI reference 11421095) concerns a 2020 TOYOTA COROLLA and was filed on June 15, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 14, 2021. The vehicle had 20,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:front, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TOYOTA COROLLA cohort independently describe similar seat belts:front failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2020 TOYOTA COROLLA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2020 Toyota Corolla. The contact stated that the driverâs side front seat belt buckle mechanism malfunctioned and failed to lock as designed. The cause of the failure was not yet determined. The local dealer and manufacturer were not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 20,000. The Vin was not available.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1752463 |
| ODI Number | 11421095 |
| Date Filed | June 15, 2021 |
| Failure Date | June 14, 2021 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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